Plans for Gimp 2.8 and beyond

by macco on 1/12/2011, 10:20 PM with 22 comments
  • by pjscott on 1/12/2011, 10:49 PM

    THE FIRST PLAN INVOLVES SHOUTING! And apparently the Gimp people aren't using any sort of actual blog engine, so it's impossible to permalink the post in question, which is rather confusingly hidden on their front page. Rather than complaining about it, I'll just copy and paste the full text here:

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    In the face of all sorts of rumours and interpretations about the future of the project there is a call for clarification regarding development of GIMP.

    Currently GIMP team is working on finalizing the new stable v2.8 with many improvements such as layer groups, improved brush dynamics, a new unique transformation tool, optional single-window mode and more. There are two big obstacles in our way right now: missing specification on the last change in user interface and broken graphic tablets support in GTK+.

    We have already invested a lot of time into UI changes and brush dynamics, we treasure your continuous support for the project and thus we are determined to release v2.8 only when it's working out of box as expected for everybody.

    After releasing v2.8 the focus of development will shift to deep integration of GEGL — our new non-destructive image processing core. Results of this work will enable many features considered critical for use of GIMP in professional environment which is part of GIMP's product vision. It's a lot of work, and currently we don't have enough developers to make this change happen very fast. If you want to help us to get there faster, we encourage you to join gimp-developer mailing list and/or the IRC channel to discuss how you could contribute.

  • by jcw on 1/12/2011, 11:39 PM

    I could rant about a few things that bug me, but please let 2.8 bring a single-window UI. That would confirm to me that they're slowly getting towards something more usable.

  • by teilo on 1/12/2011, 10:58 PM

    They have been promising the transition to GEGL for so long, it is practically vaporware. Yes, I realize that there are GEGL-based effects in the current builds - but I don't GEGL replacing the current core for a long time - and I have my doubts it ever will.

  • by on 1/12/2011, 10:54 PM

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  • by skbohra123 on 1/13/2011, 3:10 AM

    http://git.gnome.org/browse/gimp/plain/NEWS <-- list of changes in the current development version i.e. GIMP 2.7.1